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Parenting Articles
How to Build a Better Relationship With Your Child
By Kylah Harrington – Manager of Parent Education Network As a busy Mom of three, I know how challenging it is to maintain a good relationship with all of my kids. Parenting can be super tough at times and as much as we try our best, we sometimes end up fighting with our children. The View Post
View PostA Lesson in Positive Discipline
Nothing hurts the relationship between the parent and child more than using punishment. It may be effective in the short term but it comes at a cost and also deprives the child of understanding and experiencing their behaviour when we punish. If we get angry and yell, send them away or threaten them, the child View Post
View PostDemocratic Parenting
Kylah Harrington is the manager of the Parent Education Network and a nursery school teacher at The New Toronto Co-operative Nursery School. I often start off my parenting workshops talking about how changes in society have affected the way we parent today. Very simply, it began with a shift to a democratic society. For centuries View Post
View PostWhat is Adlerian Psychology?
Parent Education Network is founded on the philosophy of Adlerian psychology whose approach to humanity places the virtues of equality, respect and democratic freedom as its guiding principles. This psychological theory stems back to the work of Dr. Alfred Adler (1927) who created the theory of personality called Individual Psychology. A student of Adler, Dr. Rudolf View Post
View PostThe Components of Self-Esteem
Children’s self-esteem can fluctuate because may things can affect it. For tweens, this pyramid is a nice, neat way of looking at those components. Garber, Garber and Spizman’s Self-Esteem Pyramid Peer Influence Parental Feedback Real Accomplishments Unconditional Positive Regard We show unconditional love and acceptance and build the foundation of our children’s self-worth when View Post
View PostSelf-Esteem in Children
Self-Esteem is the collection of pictures children carry around about who they are and how they fit in. It’s formed early in life and is related to how and what parents communicate with their children, both through words and actions. Children form healthy self-esteem beliefs about themselves when they get the message that their parents View Post
View PostSunnybrook helps Families Navigate Mental Health system
Sunnybrook’s Family Navigation Project: guiding families through the labyrinth of mental health services Fran C. has become the face of the Sunnybrook Family Navigation project. Her story begins about five years ago when she discovered that her daughter Sarah was having serious problems with drug addiction – at one point she found her with View Post
View PostStay Connected to your Teen/Tween
During these years, your children will spend less and less time with you. It’s more important now, more than ever, to connect in ways that really count. But for many of us, there are lots of things that get in the way of us spending time together with our teens/tweens. Our busy schedules, our teen’s View Post
View PostChores
“It’s a constant battle to get my child to do his chores. He always says he will, but then he doesn’t without constant reminders and hassles that usually end up in punishment. I feel like giving up and doing everything myself, but I know he needs to learn responsibility. Maybe he’s just too young.” View Post
View Post“I’m Bored.”
“My child complains about being bored and expects me to drop everything to entertain him.” How do we respond to such a common statement? Often parents feel the need to fix every problem their children have, including boredom. Children spend many hours a day in front of screens (TV, computer, video games) and are used View Post
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